Beach Find

I was so trilled with this find!

I completely forgot to photograph it while it was still laying on the beach (smile)

In the past we found some small (fossil) vertebras,

but never such a big one like this (10,5 x 6,5 x 1,2 cm)

with an intervertebral disk on top.

It probably belonged to a fish, dolphin or seal...

Update: I found some similar examples of harbour porpoise

(in Dutch: bruinvis) vertebrae on the internet.

Treasures from Crisnée

Yesterday we went to a brocante market in Crisnée,

I saw something I liked so I asked: C'est combien? (French for: How much is this?)

The seller in Dutch: Dat! Dat is de tand van een beer! (English: It's a bears tooth)
(we continued our conversation in Dutch, just read my free translation underneath)

Me: That's no bears tooth! It's a bone, just take a look at the structure inside.

The seller: Yes, yes it's a bone... it's a dinosaur bone!!!

Me: That's no dinosaur bone! And I wasn't asking you what it was (smile),

I just want to know your price...

A smiling seller: 1 euro?

 I also found a small torch with a bullseye (aka walleye, dome) lens
and a torpedo style (aka Hamilton's, bomb, egg) soda bottle for a couple of euros.

We already had a simular torch and bottle...

This might be the beginning of a new collection... (big smile)

Antique

Thanks to my mum and dad, we recently bought a Swedish antique chest of drawers.

Just when everybody else is getting rid of his/her antiques nowadays ☺︎

(Now I owe you some pictures with much more daylight and skirting boards!)

Bone

I love fossils. You can see some here.

Finds

I love searching the beach for treasures of nature.

We found some lovely sea shells, urchins, bones and vertebras in De Panne!

Bones

My treasures from nature.

Bones, feathers, sea shells, sea urchins.

Big Bone